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Attention Aspiring BIPOC Filmmakers: Indeed Rising Voices Season 3 is Back — With Short Films Cleverly Disrupting Modern-Day Life

Mercedes Vizcaino
6 min readJun 18, 2023

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Out of 500 submissions, ten diverse and talented filmmakers brought their visions to the screen at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival.

Lafawn Davis (left), Lena Waithe, Rishi Rajani, Chris Hyams (right), and Rising Voices Season 3 filmmakers.

For a third year, career platform Indeed, Emmy-winning writer, actress, and creative producer Lena Waithe, 271 Films, and Ventureland launched the innovative filmmaking program — this year’s theme: The future of work. The artists of season three’s Rising Voices raised the bar on human introspection in the modern world with diverse and memorable storytelling.

My Top 5 Memorable Films

The Ballad of Tita and The Machines

Laura Patalano as Tita.

Tita (Laura Patalano) is an elderly fieldworker in California. She takes pride in her work, and when a mandated employer device tracks her abilities to pick fruit, she reluctantly hires a humanoid to replace her once she learns her productivity levels are low. Only the cyborg and its replacements malfunction and can’t perform the back-breaking work Tita has done for so long. The humanoid inventors are intrigued by Tita’s capabilities and…

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Mercedes Vizcaino
Mercedes Vizcaino

Written by Mercedes Vizcaino

I’m a freelance marketing and brand copywriter who loves writing, travel, and TV/film. My work has appeared on Facebook, Huffingtonpost.com, and Apple News.

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